The House's report on its Trump investigation is now an audiobook

Posted on 12/10/2019 at 04:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Well, that was fast. You can now buy the audiobook version of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Donald Trump’s...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, New release, Politics

Controversial Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke criticizes the media

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 09:28 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Peter Handke, the controversial winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has broken his media silence to criticize...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Politics

Books behind bars: Some inmates get a club, others get charged

Posted on 12/03/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have two stories about books in incarceration facilities to share: one uplifting, one less so. The Texas Observer checked...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book club, Politics, Reading

Newly freed author remains mum on post-New Zealand plans

Posted on 11/21/2019 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Award-winning author Behrouz Boochani is certainly enjoying his first taste of freedom in six years. Boochani, an Iranian Kurd, sought...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics

Author James Patterson will receive the National Humanities Medal

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 02:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The first recipients of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal during Donald Trump’s presidency will officially receive...

Tagged As: Awards, Politics

"A Warning" underwhelms literary reviewers

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Warning by Anonymous, who claims to be an insider in the Trump administration, notched some impressive early sales numbers....

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Tagged As: Book reviews, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics

Book battles: Bulk orders of “Triggered” and Balkan conspiracy theories

Posted on 11/15/2019 at 11:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

People who think reading and books are boring are clearly oh-so-wrong, for many reasons. We have two salacious stories from...

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Tagged As: Awards, Bestsellers, Politics, Scandal, The Guardian, The New York Times

Edward Snowden: Chinese regime has censored my memoir

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 03:59 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who helped reveal the NSA’s surveillance programs, says his memoir is being censored in...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics, The Bookseller

Turkish author recently released from jail is arrested again

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 07:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The celebration over a Turkish writer’s release from jail appears to have been premature. Journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan was...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Politics, Scandal, The Guardian

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley's memoir hits shelves

Posted on 11/12/2019 at 08:50 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today is release day for yet another political memoir, this one from Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Book reviews, Memoir, NPR, Politics